Prospects Bright Fort Lane Road Extension To Sill
Fort Sill road plans gain momentum as State Sen. Bill Logan says he will ask Bob Barr to submit a four lane extension from the U.S. 62 277 interchange to Fort Sill for urban program funding. Barr hints federal approval pending submission with a projected cost near 500000 and possible right of way needs.
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Logan
Barr
Bureau of Public Roads
Sen
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Fort Worth
Bureau of Roads
Federal Bureau
U.S. 277
Fort Sill
Gate 1
Porter Hill
Highway Commission
Cotton
Comanche
Chattanooga
A. H
City workers fired spark heated council clash in Oklahoma City
City Manager Bill Gill Jr faced a stormy council session as 304 municipal workers fired for not reporting to work protested outside the Municipal Building. Police kept order while 17 craft unions joined a sympathy walkout, halting some construction work and drawing 4,000 workers off the job.
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Oklahoma City
Teamsters Union Today
Bill Gill Jr
Gill
Teamsters
AFL
Roy Tillman
Nine Americans Freed as China Lists Detainees
Chinese Reds notify the United States that nine Americans including six women are free to return home. Wang Ping nan says two more could depart immediately if exit permits are granted and another in two to three months. Ambassadors plan to continue talks on Saturday. Names include Emma Barry, Ralph Boyd, Mrs. Juanita Huang, Robert Parker, Howard Ricks, his wife, Eva Dugay, and the Romanoffs, with others identified or awaiting release.
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Geneva
China
United States
Wang Ping-nan
U. S
U. Alexis Johnson
Wang
Emma Angelina Barry
Shanghai
Ralph Sharples Boyd
Washington, D.C
Juanita Byrd Huang
Southern Baptist
Mount Olive
Miss
Robert Howard Parker
Philadelphia
Howard Lischke Ricks
Bills Motors
Boscobel
Wis
Eva Stella Dugay
Theresa
New York City
Nadesha M. Romanoff
Harbin
Irene N. Romanoff
Edward Walsh
Peter Huizer
Bank of America
Polio Strikes Lawton Youth
Roy Dean Riddle a 10 year old son of Mrs. Bobbie McCammon and Roy Riddle of Walters is the 13th polio patient admitted to Memorial hospital this year. He arrived September 3 and is in the fourth floor isolation ward reported as in satisfactory condition with no paralysis. Two other polio patients at Memorial George Lyndell Capps 12 and Eddie Ray Reece 13 both in satisfactory condition and recently moved from isolation. neither received Salk vaccine.
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Roy Dean Riddle
Bobbie McCammon
Roy Riddle
Walters
Memorial Hospital
Memorial
Young Riddle
Riddle
Lincoln Elementary School
George Lyndell Capps
O. L. Capps
Loveland
Eddie Ray Reece
Edward Reece
Cameron College enrollment climbs toward 600 mark
Cameron College enrollment surged as Lawton area students gathered in the administration building for the 1955 56 term. Dean Gordon L. Paine projected totals around 600 by day’s end, with 80 or more sophomores expected and about 200 enrollments anticipated before classes begin Wednesday. A dozen or more Negro students joined the lines as Cameron’s desegregation continued, many from Douglass High School.
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Cameron College
Lawton
Gordon L. Paine
Cameron
Paine
Douglass High School
Compton
China Revolt Is Reported
A Nationalist Chinese news agency reported that more than 3,000 people are in active revolt in the northwestern Hunan province on the Communist mainland. The Defense Ministry could not confirm, but the claim parallels increasing Red reports of counterrevolutionary activities.
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Taipei
Formosa
Hunan
Ministry of Interior
Taiao
Defense Ministry
Reds
Mystery Man Freed By Reds Admits He's Not American
Berlin report says a man released by the Soviets as an American claimed his real name is Klobitz and he posed as an American under Soviet pressure. He gave the name Frederick M. Hopkins of New York and said he is not American, though Army authorities question his nationality. He spoke English and German and refused to aid identity tracing. Two U.S. soldiers released with him are Pvt. Michael Feingersch and Wilfred Comish.
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Berlin
Klobitz
U.S
Frederick M. Hopkins
New York
Hopkins
Army
Pvt
Michael Feingersch
Murray Fields
Wilfred Comish
Newburyport
Mass
Lawton Dedicates Three Level Interchange and Roads
Governor Raymond Gary praised Oklahoma highway progress at Lawton dedicating the state first three level interchange on U S 62 277 and new toll road plans. He cited Fort Sill expansion prospects and a $700 million program to finish highways in eight to ten years as 500 Lawton residents and dignitaries watched.
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Gary
Frederic Daugherty
45Th Infantry Division
E. G. Shinkle
Conarc
Ross H. Porter
Lawton
National Guard
Raymond Gary
Fort Sill
Northeast
Turner
Turner Turnpike
Garry
State Highway Commission
Senate
The
Highway Commission
Gladys Hangs Over Mexico Threatening Floods
Tropical storm Gladys, weakening but dangerous, hun g over Mexico near Tampico after veering from Texas. The Weather Bureau warned of isolated flash floods along the Rio Grande while winds up to 50 mph lashed the lower Texas coast and heavy rain threatened Mexico City and the Rio Grande Valley with renewed flooding risks.
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Tex
Gladys
Mexico
Tampico
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande
Mexico City
Mexican
Panuco
Port Isabel
Galveston
del Rio
Labor Day Traffic Toll Near Record Set in 1954
The three day Labor Day period saw 430 traffic deaths and 89 miscellaneous accidents, bringing total fatalities to 599. The National Safety Council had forecast 400 deaths, with historical highs of 461 in traffic and 658 overall in 1951.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned Dearborn
Council
Lawton District Reports Labor Day Traffic Toll
Lawton and Comanche county joined the seven county Lawton Highway Patrol district for Labor Day weekend, reporting no traffic fatalities but 86 arrests and 224 warnings. In the district 1,163 motorists were stopped, 25 property damage accidents, five personal injury mishaps, and ten injuries with no deaths. A separate head on collision near Chickasha injured three, with Franklin Marshall among the drivers. The toll was below the all time Labor Day record, prompting appeals to reduce year end toll.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Highway Patrol
State Crime Bureau
Bennie King
U. S. 62
Chickasha
Franklin Marshall
Lee
Council
Associated Press
State Holiday Toll Hits Record Low in Oklahoma
Oklahoma motorists cut fatalities over the 78 hour Labor Day weekend to three, a record low. The Oklahoma Safety Council had projected eight deaths on state roads. Victims include Mary Elizabeth Babbitt, 30, Tulsa. her 18 month old son Michael Anthony Babbitt. and William Dwight Ferguson II, 22, Woodward.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Safety Council
Mary Elizabeth Babbitt
Tulsa
Michael Anthony Babbitt
William Dwight Ferguson II
Woodward
Deputies Nab Pinball Machines At Bar In Oklahoma
County deputies seized three pinball machines from American Bar at 428 C. after Steele Westbrook of the state crime bureau reported a waitress paid a player for free games. County Attorney Manville Redman prepared charges of illegal possession of slot machines and planned district court action.
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Manville Redman
American Bar
Comanche County
Oral Ridgeway
Steele Westbrook
State Crime Bureau
Redman
Superior Court
Westbrook
New Anti Polio Drug Reported
Iowa City report details Helenine antiviral from penicillium mold showing remarkable prevention of Mahoney strain Type I polio in monkeys. Dr Kenneth W Cochran of Michigan presented to 400 experts at a three day American Society meeting.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Michigan
American Society For Pharmacology and
Kenneth W. Cochran
University of Michigan
Cold Front Expected Across Oklahoma This Week
A Canadian cold front will enter Oklahoma this afternoon but cooling begins Wednesday. Highs will reach the mid 90s today with 60 degrees tonight, then cooler conditions in the northern half Wednesday and across the rest of the state Wednesday night. No rain is expected due to Hurricane Gladys activity creating a low pressure system.
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Canada
Oklahoma
Gladys
Area Weather Forecast Highlights Clear to partly cloudy
Weather forecast shows clear to partly cloudy conditions with a high around 90 today and a low near 60. The pattern continues with a high near 95 on Wednesday and a low about 58 tonight. An 11 ea reading persists with a Monday high expected.
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Roy W. Kenny
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